Russian scientists were given millions of rubles of equipment

The Ministry of science and higher education of Russia has distributed grants to update the instrument base among the 111 organizations within the framework of the national project “Science.” This was reported on the website of the Department.

As noted, of the 111 26 organizations will receive grants in the amount of more than 50 million rubles each. The largest grant — in the amount 284,2 million rubles were allocated to the Physical Institute named Lebedev, Russian Academy of Sciences.

The total amount of grants that research organizations receive from the Ministry in 2019, will amount to 4.35 billion rubles.

Earlier, the head of the Ministry Mikhail Kotyukov declared that thanks to such subsidies this year, the technical foundations of the leading organizations will be able to upgrade by about seven percent. In the future, from 2020 to 2024 for these purposes is planned to allocate 84,54 billion.

National project “Science” was approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin and should be completed by 2024. Only its implementation is planned to more than 625 billion rubles. In particular, it involves the creation in Russia of 15 scientific and educational centers of the world level, commissioning research facilities class “magicians” and the formation of an integrated system of training scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel.